New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-04-11
A BRILLIANT EASTER DAY.
CROWDS ON THE AVENUE AND IN THE PARK

SPRING BoNNETs AND GAY CosTUMEs-FIRsT TASTE
OF OUTDOOR PLEAsUREa
One scarcely knows how take Easter Sunday In Now
York nowadays great church festival OF the year
tho end and OF Lencn 40 the day OF
flowers and fashions the formal beginning spring pleas
ures and display On cold like that OF last
year. the religious side Is marked and important
But In warm sunshine and tempting air like Yesterdays
struck perhaps, with the life aud gayey OF
the streets, the whrl Of carriages in the PARK the
trumphs everywhere Of the florist the tailor ana the
mllliner. Not that the church services yesterday
fewer or less attractive than usual Tho long and
elaborate programmes Of music the flowers and plants
the profse decorations the churches kept the most OF
them packed and crowded every service Special care
taken, Of In the Roman Catholic and Prot
estant Episcopal churches In tho matter Of music and
decorations and In tho Of the Protestant churches
generally special services OF some sort were held
But the day. though fine enough for church goer',
seemed made ut the paraders and out
Of DOORS began and rather hazy and ended in
burst Of genuine summer heat The temperature had
gone above 800 by and reached 63' and then $40
before sunset Tho lghtest spring overcoats and
gloves were discarded by the men, and the
women wore gayly trmn ed bonnets, lghtcolored
suits and generally discarded cloaks and wraps
The street and the elevated railroad trains were
moro than overloaded with pcnickers from tho east side
and from the house district along the Hudson
all hurrying big breathing place for first taste
OF outdoor pleasures and until midnight the returning
trains and cars were still loaded with
There was no end Of hard luck yesterday for the young
man who had taken his tailors bill by the forcock
and Obliged to walk down Fifhave in his last
suit In the first place he was threatened every
block or two with melting nwardly and worse thar that
the young he met wouldn't look at him even for
those short which they could spare from admir-
1 T%sns s@a s['S'' TO the Park both .as
walks overrun with the promenaders
doing of the uptown churches The sums rays
beat down with all the herceness OF dSy 10 mld:un-
gay boDnets and huge bouquets OF Easter
Journey ones head was in whr rainbow coored hats
gowns. For two three hours about noon this gay
promenade was at us height linen the cnutcnss c'osea
afternoon services drew thousands more out from
o'clock I'll dusk and the great thoroushare scarcely lost
for q moment that peculiarly brilliant and holiday ap-
pearance which 1t puts on only for Easter sunday
There little driving. OF course during the fore
the avenue But by o'clock every sort OF car
riage that could be crowded on 1t was hustns to reach
the Park Up In the big everything was
hustle and outdoor enjoyment The stages han been
puto ana all the boats tho lakes were filed with
pleasure parties The vast crowd OF pedestrians spread
big ostIing mass of men women and children and the
Arsenal and Menagerie were comp etely oyerrun: NO
tables could be had at either the casino OF Mount
st Vincent without waiting thirty or forty minutes
Iced beer lemonades claret punches sherry cobbers
all the summer drinks were In demand and the very
thirsty carried the beer bottles away to some convenient
quiet spot further up tho Park 49,,
The drive up and around the Reservoir was as thick
fashionable turnouts of course, were 70 be seen and dog
carts, ponycarts, hansoms, conpes trottny ouggles
out iyerysable yctorias and oarouches AL jostied
together. , ~,
Patti and Nicolni were out in an open barouche The
great singer light brown suit and brown hat with
red cockade. She had two elderly chaperonse on the
opposite seat Z. r. Barnum drove In light buggy with
Mrs Barnum and had TO get out once hieen 10 repair
hitch in the harness Many rotters too. were out for
turn, but they disappeared quickly up the road
On the Harlem River there was good deal OF Doating